The No-Growth Tories

Osborne and Cameron are still short on ideas for reviving the British economy.

Updated Oct. 10, 2012 12:01 a.m. ET

Britain's Conservative-led government has searched high and low for a way to revive the country's economy, with only a double-dip recession to show for the effort. Addressing the party conference in Birmingham on Monday, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne pointed out that Labour chief Ed Miliband never once mentioned the budget deficit in his 70-minute speech at the Labour conference last week. Mr. Osborne's remarks in Birmingham had their own revealing silences, however: Only once—and faintly—did the Chancellor mention...